Tales of My Landlord,: The black dwarfWilliam Blackwood, Prince's Street: and John Murray, Albemarle Street, London., 1816 - 347 páginas |
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... by the most sceptical , that I , who have sat in the leathern arm - chair , on the left- hand side of the fire , in the common room of the Wallace Inn , winter and summer , for every evening in my life , during INTRODUCTION . 5.
... by the most sceptical , that I , who have sat in the leathern arm - chair , on the left- hand side of the fire , in the common room of the Wallace Inn , winter and summer , for every evening in my life , during INTRODUCTION . 5.
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... common ( though , to me , an unintelli- gible ) pleasure therein . Now , in hum- ble deference to his honour , and in de- fence of my friend deceased , I reply to this charge , that howsoever the form of such animals might appear to be ...
... common ( though , to me , an unintelli- gible ) pleasure therein . Now , in hum- ble deference to his honour , and in de- fence of my friend deceased , I reply to this charge , that howsoever the form of such animals might appear to be ...
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... - ly , ought rather to have conjured me , by all the tender ties of our friendship . and common pursuits , to have care- fully revised , altered , and augmented , at my judgment and discretion . But the will of 20 INTRODUCTION .
... - ly , ought rather to have conjured me , by all the tender ties of our friendship . and common pursuits , to have care- fully revised , altered , and augmented , at my judgment and discretion . But the will of 20 INTRODUCTION .
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... common feeling that their country had been treated with injustice . The fermentation was general ; and , as the population of Scotland had been generally trained to arms , under the act of security , they were not indifferently prepared ...
... common feeling that their country had been treated with injustice . The fermentation was general ; and , as the population of Scotland had been generally trained to arms , under the act of security , they were not indifferently prepared ...
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... common was called Meikle- stane - Moor , from a huge column of unhewn granite , which raised its massy head on a knoll near the centre of the heath , per- haps to tell of the mighty dead who slept beneath , or to preserve the memory of ...
... common was called Meikle- stane - Moor , from a huge column of unhewn granite , which raised its massy head on a knoll near the centre of the heath , per- haps to tell of the mighty dead who slept beneath , or to preserve the memory of ...
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Página 119 - Marry, then, sweet wag, when thou art king, let not us, that are squires of the night's body, be called thieves of the day's beauty : let us be — Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon : And let men say, we be men of good government; being governed as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we — steal.
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